Clothes drier



M. NEEDLER CLOTHES DRIER Nov. 13 1923.

Filed July wnNEssEs I WMM( ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 13, 1923.

Uhlig? STATES MARLEY nannten, or ivIUsKncoN HEIGHTS, MICHIGAN.

CLOTHES IDB/IER.

Application led July 21, 1922. Serial No. 576,652.

1 0 (LZ1/wilma may concern.:

Be it known that I, MARLEY NEEDLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Muskegon Heights, in the county of Muskegon and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes Driers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes driers such as are adapted to be set up in a kitchen or laundry, or perhaps out of doors, for receiving clothes as they are washed or ironed, or to be folded and put away in small compass between times.

The object of the invention is toproduce a clothes drier of this character having a collapsible standard and a collapsible reel, so that the device may be folded into a small compass at times when it is not in use.

The nature and advantages of the invention will be better understood when the following detailed description is read in connection with the accompanying drawings, the invention residing in thev construction,

= combination, and arrangement of parts as claimed.

In the drawings which were transferred from my abandoned application Serial No. 185,548 and now form part of this application, like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views, and wherein Figure 1 is an end elevation of the device complete set up ready for use.

Figure 2 is a similar end elevation, partly in section showingthe device collapsed.

Figure 8 is a side elevation of one end of the device as seen in Figure 1. f

Figure 4 is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is an enlarged section through the spring bolt. Figure 6 is a sectional view taken on the line 6-6 of Figure 4.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 designates legs, which are four in number arranged in two pairs, and the structure at each end of the standard is like that at the other end and the description need not be duplicated. The legs converge upward on the inner side of a substantially triangular plate 2, to which they are pivoted as at 3, and their upper ends are bevelled oil' as at 4. In the plate are curved slots 5 in which work headed screws 6 in the legs, and when the latter are extended as seen in Figure 1, the screws engage in the outer end of the slots,

whereas when the legs are folded as seen in Figure 2, the screws engage the inner ends of the slotsl and positionthe legs in parallelism and almost in contact. with each other.

v The extreme width of the device when folded is the extremewidth of the plate 2. The legs at one end of the standard are connected'with those at the other by rungs or slats 7 The tip of each triangular plate is continued upward into an extension 8, and secured to the inside of the plate and the lextension is an upright block 9, whose body is Vpositioned between the pivots 3 and the upper ends of the legs and whose upper end rises above the extension 8 for the purpose yet to be explained.

The reel is made up of two like heads connected by transverse bars or rungs, and the descrip-tion of one head will suiiice. A metal disk 10 stands just inside the block 9, and has a stub shaft or trunnion llfprojecting outw-ard from its center and mounted in a bearing in the upper end of said block 9, and this disk in the present instance is provided with four holes12 at equal distances from the axis of its trunnion. These holes are adapted to receive the tip of a spring bolt 13, seated in the block 9, and extending through the extension 8 of the vplate 2,

so that its handle is accessible to the operator at the end of the standard as clearly shown in Figure 5. Projecting inward from the disk inward of the holes 12 are pins 10 abo-ve and below the trunnion 11 and rivets or bolts 12 at the sides ofthe trunnion, and carried by the last named pins in parallelism with but spaced from the disk is a resilient metal strip 14 (see Figure 6). The opposite ends of this strip are deflected to produce catches 15 facing respectively up and down and provided with holes. Two arms 16 are pivoted on the bolts'12, and each has ataproper point a pin 14 which yis provided with a knob 17 adapted to engage the-hole in one catch 15, when the arm stands strictly radial to the disk. lwvo other arms 18 are rigidly secured by the pins 10 to the disk and project radially therefrom at points ninety degrees from the first mentioned arms 16 when the latter are extended as seen in Figure 1, or in other words, this view shows the two rigid arms 18 as vertical and the two pivoted arms 16 as horizontal and latched inl horizontal position. The outer ends of all arms are connected in pairs by slats or rungs V19, and the lengthk of the rungs'19 and Twill control the length oi. the entire device. Y e

The drier is shown with its parts extended in Figure 1. The laundress now washes irons her clothes and hangs them one by one on the rung 1 9 which is nearest to her.

After this has been tilled,she trips the spring bolt 13 (which may be at one end of the device only,ror may be provided-in duplicate at both ends, although I consider the `latter unnecessary) and gives the reel onefquartelrotation. This permits the tip of the bolt to drop into the next hole 12 and causes another rung 19 'to come into position at the side oi the device as will be readily understood. She now hangs additional clothes on this rung, after which the reel is turned for another quarter ot 'a revolution; and so on 'until' the reelv has` been Ylilled. After the clothesare dried ,or aired, they are removed from the rung successively by a reversal of the operation justJv described. From 'this it may be Hgathered that the height `oitl the standard should be such that the horizontal rungs, or those at the sides, are about level with the shoulders lot an adult person.

TWhen the device s to be folded and pnt away as betweenV wash days, the latches 15 are tripped, and the arms 16 folded respectively upward and downward as seeny in Figure 2, oi course carrying with them the lateral rungs 19. kThis folding of thereel will occur when the arms 16 are horizontal `and arms 18 vertical, and the spring bolt willv be engaged with the proper hold as required.` The legs are new folded by beare ingthem inward. `,They turn ontheir pivots 3 and their screws 6 move inward in the slots 5 asabove described. In itsr folded condition, the width of the device is of course only that` of the widest portion overl the plates 2, its length is the length oi all of the two ends, and the heads; of the reel, the length of the latter of course being that of the rungs 19, and the height ot the device is the length ot the legs and the length oill one pair oil4 arms. rThe whole may now be conveniently put away in an average closet or pantry from which it is takenyand opened vand used again on the next wash day.

What I claim is 1. In a clothes drier, the combination with a Acollapsible standard having spaced bearings, ot a collapsible reel comprising dupli- Yan outstanding trunnion for engaging one ofsaid bearings andprovided in its body Vwith tour holes at equal intervals around its trunnion, a pair ci` radial arms rigidly projecting from said disk and alined with two of saidvhloles, a second pair of radial arms pivoted to said disk and adapted to be alined with the remaining holes, a strip connected with the disk in alinenient with the last name-d holes and pivots, catchesV on the strip and the pivoted arms for holdingthe latter extended er permitting them to fold, and means on the standard tor successively engaging said holes as the reel is rotated yon its trunnions.

Y 2. In a clothes drier, the combination with a collapsible reel having trunnions at ,its extremities and holes therein around the itrunnions, oi a standard comprising duplicate ends connected by longitudinal rungs, each end consisting of a triangular plate, an upright block carried-thereby at one end and being provided with a bearing for one of saidtrunnions, a spring bolt through the block adapted to engage said holes as the reel is rotated, a pair of legs pivoted near their upper ends tothe plate on opposite sides of said block, said plateV having arcuate slots near its lower end, and screws in the legs movably mounted in said slot-s, for the pui'- pose speciiied.

3. ln a clothes drier, the combination with a collapsible standard made up of rungs and end members, the latter having bearings, and a spring bolt beneath each bearing, of a collapsible reel comprising duplicate heads connected by longitudinal rungs, each head including a disk having a trunnion mounted in one of said bearings, the disk being provided with a series of holes adapted to aline with said springbolt, radial arms secured rigidly to said disk in alinement with two of said holes, other arms pivotally connected with said disk at points between the fixed arms and in alinemerit with the remaining two of said holes, and means for holding the last named arms when they stand radial to the ,disk orlfor permitting them vto fold alongside .the irstnamed arms, substantially as described.

Intestimony whereof I aliX my signature.

l MARLEY NEEDLER. 

